ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS

Miles Davis broke both of his legs in an auto accident when he rammed his car into a pillar on the West Side Highway, in New York. The accident also split his million dollar lip. The lip is expected to heal in time for his winter tour. Said Miles, who was driving a sports car (foreign made, Ralph) when the accident happened, “I’m gonna have to stop drivin' these little cars..."

Those term-papers for sale businesses are about to be put out of action; or that’s the way itlooks. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston, and Boston University have filed suit on the grounds that ihe/tetm-paper salesmen “disrupt. the educational process.”'

The Federal suit accuses the companies of mail fraud, because some of their business Is conducted through the mathBetter stock up now for those , finals next spring}';

Pete Townshend says that ‘Tor The Benefit Of Mr. Kite,” on Sgt. Pepper's was written for his Who ronyJ&ith Moon. Moon, says Townshend, “reckons” that John , always called him Mr. Kite.1''

Townshend also told a British pop paper that, “1 wrote to Dylan because I wanted him tocoim^; clean and own' up about a lot of things, i wanted to know how he got the tide “Mighty Qttitgfy w whether it was a name he saw in a pbmn fta'dft Eskimo god or something orwhether because Anthony Onion played Nanob%;bf the North in the Eskimo film. But if J did find out it wouldn’t j&jpy make a difference to me - f don’t care either way/mally*”

Lorenzo W. Milam died on 1 October 7th, That may not mean much to you unless you were either one of the fortunates who got his zany program guide, put out ftom perhaps the freest*form FM station in the country, fj KTAG, Los Gatos, California, or 1 one of the freaks who got free air time there. Milam was a man with a fortune to spend and he spent it :oft radio stations, lie was also an -incredible e^centtiid to Whom freedom of the airwaves mftaui that anybody who wanted air ,v time should have it. Californians J who pulled KTAG dotffimfL. \ ozone were sometimes shocked, j sometimes bored, and sometimes challenged to the limits of their *\ media sensitivity. Milam’s stations usually folded alter a short while, but KTAO continues, as does the work ot the dozens he inspired, if you're down Los Gatos way, try to puli TAOh^^brehzo would dig it.

Wotfnuus Jack did the world’s first nude radio interview. AH comae.. ,,

Residents of Bydgoszcz in northern Poland turned on their water faucets one day a few I weeks ago, and beer gushed forth. Seems a faulty valve at the local | beer factory had pumped the suds Into the water mains.'

Paul Butterfield is back ms W&, toad, touring with Dr. John. The -umvhaitd consists rdf Ronnie Barron, '^e legendary I^r, Ether, on keyboards, Bill Rich of Jl&C'hlc F^g anti Dr, John notoriety, on bass, drummer Chris Parker and Woodstock super session guitarist, Amos Garrett. A surprise addition is Geoff Muldaur$' late of Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band (left before drey got Ly manoid) and maker of a couple albums with wife Maria (on Reprise) in the last couple > ears. A new Buttet album wUI be leased on BearsvIUe shortly* |g

The Rhodesian Law and Order m i ni stty, haC'eOn de m ngj^jro^, because it leads to miscegenation. (It really is the Law and Order -, ministry!, too.)

Shaft, meet Clive; Chve meet Shaft: Ever since Columbia’s Angel Town Sound hype with Okeh Records went down the Jttbe$» CBS has been looking for a piece of the soul pie, and now they seem to have made the Big Score: from now on, they’re distributing Stax Records.

Rod Stewart wants you to know that he was paid “handsomely” Y | for the Python Lee Jackson session and he’s not at all pissed #at the record labels involved, despite recurrent rumors to

Backup songstress Kathi J||pen$id (Mad Dogs tour and the last edition of Big Brother>as well asa Leon Russell stint)has signed with Spindizzy Records, Jj leaving only die Mad drummers, Bobby Keys, and Claudia Linn eat without sale albums as a result of that historic Joe Cocker tour. We have a feeling it won’t be long for m ppern*

The university of Houston had a surprise when the results of their Homecoming Queen election were announced. The winner: All in the Family's Alice Cooper. (Alice is a member of the All in the Family cast for at least one show; he’s gonna play the Bunkers’ new neighbor.)

Breakin’ Up Is Hard To Do... Well, that’s pretty dated, as you all know. The Youngbloods have ft done it, and so have Creedence Clearwater. The announcement of each breakup was accompanied j by a convoluted press release: The Youngbloods* release was merely unintelligible, while the Creedence break-up notice left us with the confusing note that they Were just not going to record or perform live together any more -H “we don’t regard this as breaking , up.” Sure, it’s a lot different than say, the Beatles, or Cream, or Traffic, or Spooky Tooth, or the v/JSiooges, or Moby Grape, or Delaney & Bonnie, or Joe Cocker and the Grease Band, or the ; Firesign Theatre, or Mountain, or Free or the Jeff Beck Group or the Yardbirds or... Weil, it’s just different. We understand.

Elton John has formed Rocket Records. Elton’s contract has two years tb run, but he’s going ahead with it, anyway. First artist will be Davey Johnstone, Elton’s long-time guitarist.

Dodd, Mead have issued a new book, Acapulco Gold by Edwin Corley, which is all about what happens when Madison Ave. gets hold of grass after it’s legalized. Author Corley actually got some Mad. Ave. firms to work up ad campaigns for grass cigarettes, and the result is supposedly good. We’ll see.

Neil Diamond’s Broadway sell out was broadcast behind the “Iron Curtain” by the Voice of America.

A group of teenagers in Harlem stole a piano from a school because a lady in the neighborhood said she wanted one. Unfortunately, while they were wheeling the massive keyboard down the street, the cops spotted them and gave chase. One of the thieves was nabbed, the other two escaped, and when the cops got back to the scene the neighborhood had begun to boogie to the strains of “I Left My Heart In San Francisco,” (Indeed! Were you there, Emmett?) in an impromptu version played by a neighborhood novice who pulled up a wooden crate and began to jam. The party wound up with about 100 people in the street. Martha, you were so right.

Black Sabbath have announced that, after their tour next April, they will be doing no more American dates. Reason: they’re exhausted. Duration: supposedly two years, but you know hdw these things go.

More reasons why Sabbath might be quitting the States, in the form of quotes from Ozzy Osbourne. “They really go overboard,” he said of his audiences, “it’s a wonder half of them don’t take a coffin to a gig.”

As far as musical scholarship, Osbourne said, “I couldn’t even read English writing, let alone music writing.”

The Justice Dept, has called on the Supreme Court to eliminate young people living collectively from the list of people eligible to receive food stamps. The appeal even uses the word “hippie.”

Keith Moon is gonna be in a new movie, That'll Be the Day.

John Nesci, the WOWI-FM (Norfolk, Va.) disc jockey we told you about last issue, now faces a possible two year sentence and/or a $10,000 fine for his alleged “obscene” broadcasts. Nesci had played the Fish Cheer on WOWI last summer, unfortunately, while the FBI were taping him. Country Joe and cronies are reportedly talking about a benefit.

Tim Leary’s new book, which describes his escape from prison with the aid of Weathermen, is tentatively titled Escapades: Confessions of a Hope Fiend. Bantam bought it for $250,000 and it should be out after the first of the year in hardcover, paperback later on.

CBS is going to show Woodstock, the movie, sometime this spring.

Rory Storm, one of the earliest Liverpool rockers, with a group called Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, whose drummer was once Ringo Starr, has died in what may be the ultimate rock and roll form: a double suicide pact with his mother.

The big new scandal in British rock is ticket scalping and bogus programs. The fake programs are about half as good as the real stuff, sold only inside the halls; the fakes generally have outrageously skimpy, often outdated, material. One tout was reportedly selling Gerry and the Pacemakers posters — vainly — at a Grateful Dead show.

Ticket scalping is so outrageous that Tony Stratton-Smith, the manager of the Charisma label and bands Lindisfarne and Genesis, was reduced to handing out tickets for free before a recent show. Stratton-Smith approached everyone the scalpers did, and gave the tickets away. “I did a lot better than the scalpers,” he said, i

Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show are gonna be on Danish TV in .. i the nude. The segment in which they perform naked will not be seen in the American version of the special.

The new live Stones album, with Stevie Wonder, should be out before Christmas. And Stevie’s new record, Talking Book (Whew!), is out, too, with a song called “Superstition” he wrote for Jeff Beck.

Mark-Almond’s Jon Mark cut off the tip of his finger in Hawaii, but is apparently well enough by now to be back playing again. Remember Django Reinhardt, Jon.

The Wind Harp has escaped from Marty Cerfs office at United Artists Records in Los Angeles. It was last spotted in Santa Fe, New Mexico, apparently heading south for the winter before it rusts.

Through the Past, Unquestionably: Rumors that Raspberries were asked to leave the Hollies tour are apparently true. Raspberries (“Go All The Way ”) wear matching white suits on stage, and sing a lot of pretty rockers with distinctly BeatUsh overtones. To the Hollies, such leanings are, in the words of the group’s publicist, “ a nightmare reminder of the group’s past.” Replacing Raspberries for the remainder of the tour was Danny O’Keefe, who reminds no one of anything.

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Joe Cocker is deep in Dutch with die Australian cops. First, he golf drunk on stage in Melbourne, then stormed off, cursing the band, demanding liquor, yelling obscenities at the crowd.

When Cocker got back to the hotel, a scuffle broke out. The management asked Super Lungs and his entourage to leave, and the brawl got worse. Cocker, whose luck has been lousy for • about three years, was charged with resisting arrest, assaulting police, indecent language, common assault, assault by kicking, offensive behavior and refusing to leave liscensed premises.

In addition, Cocker was in the process of being deported on drug charges.

ABC/Dunhill are supposed to have signed Boris Spassky, reportedly rush releasing an album to compete with Bobby Fischer’s on Warners. Whatever happened to Bobby “Boris”! . Pickett? Answer: He did the Monster Mash.

Are Spooky Tooth reforming? That’s what the birdie has been whispering in CREEM’s ear.

Neil Innes, late of the scrumptilicious Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, has formed a rock pantomime “Alias Normal Man,” which has opened in London. Fudd, a London rock group, provides the music. Innes describes the pantomime as “an-existential comedy, a sort of cross between Satire and On the Buses.” Whatever that means.

A jet set writer, Oriana Falacci, is reportedly getting set to do a book on Linda Eastman McCartney. Yoko’s still a hit with the prop jet set, though.